Nearly 30% of ICLR 2027 reviews mention "appendix", fueling AI-written review fears
nsaphra · x · 2026-11-07
- A chart of 294,878 public official ICLR reviews (2023–2027) shows the share mentioning "appendix" held at 13–16% for years (2023: 16.2%, 2024: 13.2%, 2025: 13.1%, 2026: 15.1%) — then jumped to 29.0% in the live preliminary 2027 snapshot (n=125,664, collected Nov 6, 2026).
- The poster quips that 2 of 3 sampled reviews obsess over appendix experiments and "I don't even need Pangram to know no person would do that," reading the anomaly as a telltale sign of LLM-written peer reviews at ICLR 2027.
- Caveats: review forms and stages differ across years and the 2027 data is not final, but the near-doubling is being taken as a signal of mass AI participation in peer review.
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